![]() ![]() Batman Gambit: As a hero team, the Defenders often prefer to outsmart their opponents so there are quite a number of these. ![]() Bald of Evil: Ming, the show's main antagonist, is completely bald apart from his beard, although his headpiece usually hides it.Despite being clearly in orbit and far outside the atmosphere, it still inexplicably behaves like an aircraft. There's an episode where the Defenders' spacecraft gets a wing shot off and instantly loses the ability to fly in space and begins to "fall" in a spin.Traveling from one planet to another in a few hours at most? While it's possible that the aliens in the series have developed some form of faster-than-light travel, the Defenders appear to be the only human characters with access to this kind of technology.Affirmative-Action Legacy: "The Ghost Walks Again" revolves around Jedda having to take up her father's identity.Mandrake, who was simply a skilled illusionist in the comic strip, can use actual magic here. The Phantom, who is just a Badass Normal in the comic, can gain a temporary burst of Super-Strength by invoking his "Ten Tigers" ability. Adaptational Badass: Not that they weren't badass originally, both The Phantom and Mandrake are even more so than they are in the original comics.Action-Hogging Opening: Most of the footage in the intro that doesn't appear in the series (Flash flying his jet into the camera, Mandrake using a giant-sized illusion to destroy Ming's fighters then winking at the camera, Lothar crashing through a stone wall, the panning shot of the Defenders confronting Ming, and the end shot of the team superimposed over the Earth) came from the minute-long pilot film that was used to sell the show a full version isn't known to circulate, but storyboards posted by artist Will Meugniot on his Facebook page can be viewed note pages 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, 7 and 8, 9 and 10, 11 and 12, 13 and 14, 15 and 16, and finally 17 and 18.Action Figure File Card: The figures had brief character bios on the packaging.65-Episode Cartoon: The series didn't do well enough to rate more episodes.The theme song's lyrics were written by Stan Lee, of all people.Īll 65 episodes are available to watch on the official YouTube channel for King Features Syndicate. The show ran for a single syndicated season of 65 episodes, and had a brief four-issue comic-book series published by Marvel Comics under their "Star Comics" imprint. The Defenders were helped by their teenage children: Rick Gordon (son of Flash), Jedda Walker (daughter of the Phantom), Kshin (adopted son of Mandrake), and L.J. Set in the year 2015, it starred characters from three classic King Features series - Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and partners Mandrake the Magician and Lothar - as they teamed up to battle the evil machinations of Flash's alien Arch-Enemy, Ming the Merciless. Suspiciously similar to, yet not the same as, The Defenders.ĭefenders of the Earth was a 1986 animated television show, jointly produced by Marvel Productions and King Features Syndicate. ![]()
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